Re: [Plplot-devel] PLplot statistics

[Alan W. I. <ir...@be...>]

On Fri, 8 Feb 2002, Rafael Laboissiere wrote:

> I do not know the details of dependency handling in the rpm packaging
> system....

It's mostly automatic.  I check the dependency list that comes as part
of a particular package build (and which of course is also available for
the binary version of the package), and it is almost always right without
any intervention from me.

> ... but for Debian I am planning to make individual packages for each
> specific driver needing exteranl libraries.  The dependencies will be set
> like:
>
>     plplot-tcl -> tcl8.3, tk8.3
>     plplot-xwin -> xlib6g
>     plplot-gd -> libgd2
>     ...
>

Splitting plplot up this way is probably the right thing to do for a system
with apt-get, but many people still (despite Conectiva making an apt-get
that works with rpm packages) handle their rpm dependencies by hand so it is
probably better to lump everything together into one plplot package in that
situation.  Anyhow, that is good justification for my lazy rpm packaging
approach where I only make one plplot package....;-)

At some point I intend to get involved in (unofficial) Debian packaging
myself for the yplot project.  Out of curiosity, do you have to remember all
the dependencies yourself or do you have an automatic system (as in rpm)
that usually gets the dependices right for whatever package you have
assembled?

BTW, this has been an enjoyable thread which I have helped others to move
far off topic, but I also hope people have paid attention to the original
topic which was to have a look at
http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/index.php?report=last_30&group_id=2915
and http://sourceforge.net/project/stats/index.php?report=months&group_id=2915
to get an idea of how many people are taking an interest in our work.

Alan